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Alistair Darling has delivered the final Pre-Budget Report (PBR) before the election. Find out the chancellor's main points, where money will be spent and saved, and how much bashing the bankers will get.

Both Alistair Darling and George Osborne repeatedly talked of the "choice" facing the British people. As the shadow chancellor put it, it's the election rather than the Budget which everyone is focusing on.